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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3942
Title:: Registrum Brevium of King Edward III; Statutes of England
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-113v: Registrum Brevium of King Edward III. ff. 112r-162v: Statutes of England. Decoration: Rubrics in red.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: late 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3994
Title:: Statutes of England; a register of the English chancery
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1v-6v: Lists of chapters for major English statutes included in this manuscript. ff. 7r-11r: Magna Carta. ff. 11v-13r: Carta de Foresta. ff. 13r-13v: 'Confirmacio duarum Cartarum'. ff. 13v-14v: Sentencia Cartarum. ff. 14v-15v: Assisa Foresta. ff. 15v-18v: Statuta Glouc...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: c 1300-c 1325
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4004
Title:: Collection of English law cases; indentures of John Estrete; formulary of English Civil Law
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript consists of three parts that were produced separately and written by different hands. Contents: Part 1: ff. 1r-107v: Collection of English law cases; written in Law French in the last quarter of the 15th century or 1st quarter of the 16th century. Part 2: ff. 108...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 15th century-17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4011
Title:: An English miscellany including poems by John Lydgate; Craft of Dying; Duodecim Gradus Humilitatis; Counsels of Isidore; The Libel of English Policy; Osbern Bokenham, Mappula Anglie; John Skelton, Of the Death of the Noble Prince, Kynge Edwarde the Forth; John Russell, Book of Nurture
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: John Lydgate, So as the Crabbe Goth Forward; fragment. f. 1r: John Lydgate, All riȝtwisnes doþe now proced. ff. 1r-1v: John Lydgate, Translacyon by lydgate of Stans puer ad mensum. ff. 1v-2r: John Lydgate, The Fall of Princes; Extract of Book III, here entitled: ‘Lenvoye t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: c 1450
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4021
Title:: Registrum brevium
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-199r: Registrum brevium, including a table of contents (ff. 2r-5v). The manuscript contains several additions: f. [ii]verso: An erased (? ownership) inscription. f. 1v: Legal note in Law French added in the (?) 17th century. f. 122r: Oonsteth'; added in the (?) 15th centu...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4024
Title:: Coats of arms of Irish nobility
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-39v: Full-page drawings of coats of arms of the Irish nobility (tricked). ff. 40v-57r: Drawings and sketches in pencil and pen of heraldic crests, mantlings, and helmets; some in colours. The manuscript contains a later addition: ff. 1r-1v: An alphabetical index of family ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 17th century-4th quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4027
Title:: New Testament, in the later Wycliffite version
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-181r: New Testament, in the later Wycliffite version (c. 1380), including the Gospels of Matthew (ff. 1r-22r), Mark (ff. 22r-36v), Luke (ff. 36v-61v), and John (ff. 61v-79v); Pauline Epistles (ff. 79r-130v); Acts of the Apostles (ff. 130v-146r); Catholic Epistles (ff. 146r-167...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4032
Title:: English coats of arms
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-75r: Full-page drawings of the arms of 85 peers of England, with a history of the succession of the first eight of them. Decoration: Full-page drawings in colours and gold throughout the manuscript.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4045
Title:: History of Bohemia from the year 890 to 1618
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-46r: History of Bohemia from the year 890 to 1618, inscribed to 'Lord George, Marques of Buckingham, Lord high Admirall of England' [George Villiers (b. 1592, d. 1628), Marquess of Buckingham from 1618 until elevated to (1st) Duke of Buckingham in 1623, and Lord High Admiral b...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1619-1623
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4053
Title:: Debates of the House of Commons April 1679; a historical speech in defence of Charles I; a treatise on the value of money; a historical miscellany of the Norman Conquest; St Augustine, Regula; Henry of Sawtry, De purgatorio S. Patricii
Scope & Content:: ff. 2r-35r: Debates of the house of Commons April 1679. ff. 36r-46v: A historical speech in defence of King Charles I. ff. 47r-55r: A treatise on the value of money. ff. 65r-76r: A historical miscellany of the Norman Conquest. f. 77r: A note about the articles of faith in a 17th-century han...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century - 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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